Robert L. Peters

Who is Robert L. Peters?

Robert L. Peters, FGDC was born on May 26, 1954 to devout Mennonite missionary parents, the middle of three sons to survive infancy. His pacifist father was born in post-revolutionary Russia in 1920, narrowly escaping as a refugee émigré along with his nuclear family in 1926.. Robert’s mother was born in Manitoba in 1926 by dint of an earlier Russian Mennonite immigration to the Canadian prairies in 1874.

Robert’s family moved to Europe in 1957, where he grew up as a third culture kid, schooled bilingually in Frankfurt, Germany and Basel, Switzerland. Following a one-year foundation program in art, he graduated from Black Forest Academy, and then attended a year of religious studies at Capernwray Hall in the United Kingdom. He subsequently volunteered with Operation Palmbranch, an African relief mission based in Bavaria, Germany.

Peters immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1974, where he worked as an artist and freelance illustrator, married Beverly Guay Pauls, and studied design. In 1976 he co-founded the design studio Circle Graphics.